On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 11:27:56AM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Joseph Myers <jos...@codesourcery.com>: > > When we're talking about something to be used > > for the next 20 years we should make sure to get it right. > > Segher and others should note that I'm not in the habit of sinking most of > a year of my time into problems that I don't think are extremely > important. This conversion *is* that important.
To you, whatever reposurgeon does that nothing else can, is important. To many other people, not. Most people are totally pragmatic and want to use a git-based workflow with GCC, and then soon upgrade some other things in our workflow, to improve our day-to-day experience, and to allow us to do things we couldn't do before. Most people do not care about fixing the imperfections in the CVS->SVN conversion. We have been using the SVN->Git mirror for over ten years now, and it is perfectly workable. Now we want to finally finally _FINALLY_ have an actual git repo that we can commit patches to directly. Which we unanimously decided to do over three months ago. > Nor, as far as I am aware, do the scripts have anything resembling > reposurgeon's test suite. So? Such a test suite does not magically prevent bugs (whatever type it is: regressions, unit tests, whatever methodology). The only thing that matters is acceptance testing (which includes such trivial things ass "are all the files on trunk what they should be"). > Segher Boessenkool: > > > If the reposurgeon conversion is not ready now, then it is too late > > > to be selected. > > Maxim's conversion pipeline isn't ready either -- there are known > bugs with its result. Are there? The last I heard is that branches that do not share any history with GCC are not in there. That's a feature, not a bug, imnsho. If you know of any other bugs, detail them, don't make unfounded statements please. > Does that mean it's too late to select Maxim's > conversion? If so, what do you propose be done? Maxim's conversion was perfectly acceptable many months ago already. > Please stop bellyaching and pitch in. Whether it's by fixing up > Maxim's conversion, helping improve the reposurgeon one, > or writing a conversion method of your own - I don't much care > and it's not my job to tell you what to do, anyway. Any of those > choices might be helpful; sniping from the sidelines is not. Lol. Yeah, I won't answer that at all, I guess. Segher
